Reborn in 1980: I Don't Want the Husband Who Faked His Death to Marry His Childhood Sweetheart

My husband died in the line of duty. Before his body had even grown cold, I unhesitatingly had his household registration canceled. Then, on the same day as the wedding of his twin brother and his childhood sweetheart three days later, I resolutely remarried, taking my son and the hefty compensation payment with me.

Everyone cursed me as cold-blooded and heartless, but as I watched my "younger brother-in-law" with his eyes reddened, I felt a surge of satisfaction.

That was because in my previous life, I had recognized that the body brought home wasn't my husband, but his older twin brother.

When I went to confront him, I accidentally overheard my husband and mother-in-law discussing how he would marry the childhood sweetheart who had been betrothed to his older brother, three days later.

"Mom, Qingyi is strong. Besides, we have a son. Surely nothing will happen to her."

"But Yaoyao waited so many years for your older brother. If she hears the terrible news about him, she might follow him in death."

It felt as if a bolt of lightning had struck me. I wanted to expose the truth, but my husband knocked me unconscious with a stick.

He told everyone I had lost my mind from grief, locked me in the woodshed, and made me watch as he married and consummated his marriage with his childhood sweetheart.

And because his childhood sweetheart complained that my son was too noisy, my husband put sleeping pills in the food of my crying boy, who had been looking for me. He never woke up again.

On the day my son was hastily buried, I despairingly hanged myself in the woodshed.

When I opened my eyes again, I had returned to the day the older brother's body was brought home.